80 and want an iPod - It won't kill you.

Maybe it will if you're listening to it and fall over and hit the ground, and can't find you're emergency call button! "I've fallen and can't get up".. Or maybe you're jogging listening to you're iPod. At 80 .. that might kill you..

Ok seriously... "[ Washington Reuters News Service, 1 February 2008 ] - Portable media players such as iPods are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers, a US Food and Drug Administration researcher reported yesterday.

FDA researcher Howard Bassen and colleagues set up a complex experiment using a saline-filled bag to simulate the human body and a coil sensor designed to pick up electromagnetic emissions.
They measured the magnetic fields produced by four different iPod models: a fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and an iPod nano and an iPod shuffle. They also measured the voltages delivered to the inside of the pacemaker by the magnetic fields from the iPods.

All their measurements indicated the iPods could not affect cardiac pacemakers, they reported in the journal BioMedical Engineering OnLine." Read more @ Itweb.

So maybe if you have you're iPod, iPhone turned on, hooked into your technology package upgrade in your new commuter car. You'd better make sure that you don't get near a coffee shop with a wifi hotspot.. you might not be safe. I know that they need to test this stuff, but it's still a little silly that somebody probably has a law suit against Apple, claiming that there iPod gave them a heart attack.